"I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better."

-- Lisa Edelstein

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Office Quotes

“Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.”
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
“My timingâ€™s a little off. But Iâ€™m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.”
“Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares”
“The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.”
“The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.”
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

Source : Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Novak! Take the blazer off before you punch, it will help. Take it off. Hey, that's from Express.”

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